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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






2. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






3. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






4. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






5. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






6. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






7. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






8. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






9. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






10. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






11. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






12. State Board of Eduation






13. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






14. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






15. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






16. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






17. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






18. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






19. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






20. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






21. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






22. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






23. Closed syllable






24. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






25. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






26. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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27. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






28. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






29. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






30. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






31. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






32. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






33. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






34. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






35. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






36. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






37. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






38. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






39. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






40. Feeling through fingertips






41. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






42. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






43. r-controlled syllable






44. Multisensory Structured Language Education






45. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






46. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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47. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






48. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






49. Academic Language Therapy Association






50. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes